Gallinaceous Bird
Of bird and Galliformes. May also be referred to as gallinacean.
Heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds.
This concept's ID is @1~9041
Gallus
- domestic fowl
A domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl.
- jungle fowl
Small Asiatic wild bird; believed to be ancestral to domestic fowl.
Also contains
- game bird
Any bird (as grouse or pheasant) that is hunted for sport.
- columbiform bird
A cosmopolitan order of land birds having small heads and short legs with four...
- megapode
Large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to...
- guan
Any of several large turkey-like game birds of the family Cracidae; native to jungles of tropical...
- chachalaca
Slender arboreal guan resembling a wild turkey; native to Central America and Mexico...
- comb
The fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds.
- ocellated turkey
Wild turkey of Central America and northern South America.
- curassow
Large crested arboreal game bird of warm parts of the Americas having long legs and tails;...
- hoatzin
Crested ill-smelling South American bird whose young have claws on the first and second...